Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/
"... the biodiversity of our ecosystem gives our ecosystem resilience. Ultimately, diversity wins."
"... terraforming with fungi on other planets is very plausible. Fungi were the first organisms that came to land, munching rocks, and fungi gave birth to animals about 650 million years ago. We're descendants of the descendants of these fungal networks.
"[Plants that support terraforming] need minerals, and pairing fungi up with the plants and debris from humans [causes them to] decompose into a form that then creates rich soils that could help generate the foods that astronauts need. It's much easier to take one seed and grow your food than it is to take a ton of food to space, right? "
"... we dried out these reishi blocks and we tried to crush them. But we couldn't crush them. You could saw them with a saw blade, but if you tried to hit them with a hammer or something, they just wouldn't break."
"They're so structurally strong. They're also good at retaining heat, so their insulation properties are phenomenal. Moreover, these could become batteries. You can have solar panels on a structure on Mars made of mycelium. (The entire mycelium is about 85 percent carbon, and studies have shown that porous carbon can be an excellent capacitor.) "
"There are more than 65 articles right now ... at ClinicalTrials.gov that say psilocybin mushrooms help people overcome [post-traumatic stress disorder], loneliness and depression. Do you think the astronauts are going to have loneliness and depression and PTSD? I think yes. How are you going to help them? ... you should consider that psilocybin mushrooms should be an essential part of your psychological tool kit for astronauts ..."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/
"... the biodiversity of our ecosystem gives our ecosystem resilience. Ultimately, diversity wins."
"... terraforming with fungi on other planets is very plausible. Fungi were the first organisms that came to land, munching rocks, and fungi gave birth to animals about 650 million years ago. We're descendants of the descendants of these fungal networks.
"[Plants that support terraforming] need minerals, and pairing fungi up with the plants and debris from humans [causes them to] decompose into a form that then creates rich soils that could help generate the foods that astronauts need. It's much easier to take one seed and grow your food than it is to take a ton of food to space, right? "
"... we dried out these reishi blocks and we tried to crush them. But we couldn't crush them. You could saw them with a saw blade, but if you tried to hit them with a hammer or something, they just wouldn't break."
"They're so structurally strong. They're also good at retaining heat, so their insulation properties are phenomenal. Moreover, these could become batteries. You can have solar panels on a structure on Mars made of mycelium. (The entire mycelium is about 85 percent carbon, and studies have shown that porous carbon can be an excellent capacitor.) "
"There are more than 65 articles right now ... at ClinicalTrials.gov that say psilocybin mushrooms help people overcome [post-traumatic stress disorder], loneliness and depression. Do you think the astronauts are going to have loneliness and depression and PTSD? I think yes. How are you going to help them? ... you should consider that psilocybin mushrooms should be an essential part of your psychological tool kit for astronauts ..."
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